[7] Despite Robbie Widlansky's two extra base hits and his scoring two runs, Perth was unable to take the lead at any point in the game.

Brisbane went on to split the next five series against Sydney, Perth and Adelaide, with Josh Roberts hitting the first home-run for the Bandits in the 9th game of a season.

They found the challenge difficult to compete at the battered friend, Melbourne Showgrounds, conceding 56 runs in four games despite hitting 10 home-runs.

[16] Brisbane Bandits finished the regular season with a record of 37 wins and 19 losses and earned the right to host the Championship series at AFA Stadium at Holloway Field.

In front of 2,242 fans, Bralin Jackson opened the scoring with a homer off Bite starting pitcher Josh Tols in the bottom of the 1st innings.

Donald Lutz, Mitch Nilsson and TJ Bennett combined to drive in the four runs at the bottom of the 3rd innings and the Bandits retained the advantage to win Game 1.

[17] On a wet Saturday night for Game 2, Brisbane ran out 7-1 winners in front of 2,417 fans to claim the Claxton Shield for the first time.

[18] Starting pitcher Travis Blackley struck out Adelaide's Stefan Welch on a full count with runners on second and third base when the game was still scoreless in the third innings.

Brisbane prevailed 3–1 in Game 1 in Adelaide, with Bandits starting pitcher Justin Eramus allowing just one run and one hit over 5.2 complete innings.

In Game 1, the Bandits would prevail 6–2 on the back of home runs to Trent Oeltjen, David Rodriguez, Logan Wade and Kevin Padlo.

With the score tied at 8–8 at the bottom of the 9th innings, David Sutherland homered at 2-2 pitch from Jon Kennedy over right-center-field to send the Bandits to their third straight Championship series.

In the decisive Game 3 Bandits' catcher Adam Weisenburger hit a 2 on, 2 out home run off Frank Gailey in the 2nd innings to give Brisbane an early lead.

Gailey then drilled Andrew Campbell and the benches emptied, with Brisbane Bandits Manager Dave Nilsson and Coach Adrian Lamb ejected when the dust settled.

He got Cameron Warner to dribble a grounder toward third baseman Lin, who fired to Sutherland at first for the final out as Brisbane claimed their third successive Australian Baseball League Championship.

The Brisbane Bandits were placed in the Northeast division with Sydney Blue Sox, Canberra Cavalry and Auckland Tuatara.

A new play-off structure was announced 29 August 2018 with the addition of a single wild card game between the fourth and fifth seeds prior to two rounds of best-of-three finals series.

Donald Sutherland and Riley Unroe would follow up with solo homers in the 8th innings to secure the Bandits a place in their fourth straight Championship series.

A hopping ball allowed Brisbane to take a lead in the seventh inning before Loek van Mil and Ryan Searle collected the final nine outs to guide the Bandits home.

[23] In Game 2, Andrew Campbell, Wade Dutton and TJ Bennett hit home runs for the Bandits, who blew Perth away with a six-run third innings to take an unassailable 8–0 lead.

The Heat hit four solo home runs to cut into the lead, with Robbie Glendinning going deep twice while Pete Kozma and Chris Clare also homered, but they never really threatened.